[Foundation-l] Image filter

[Thomas Morton]

On 10 March 2012 00:57, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> On 03/09/12 6:06 AM, Neil Babbage wrote:
>
>> Wikimedia is not supposed to be some kind of exercise in perfection for
>> perfection's sake. It's supposed to be open, accessible and useful.
>>
>>
>>  "Useful", like "notable" is another of those words that cannot be easily
> defined. In many otherwise non-controversial articles we have pictures that
> do not further the contents of the articles.  They may have a loose
> connection with the article's topic, but they don't add any information to
> the topic. They do, however, break up solid blocks of text, and make it
> more readable.
>
>
But isn't that an equally subjective matter; I know several editors who
consider such images (to break up prose) a hindrance and they remove them
with vigour.

To me you're just making an argument for a "Images used in a decorative
capacity" category, so those people can read undisturbed :)

Tom